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Rapid Analysis of Circadian Phenotypes in Arabidopsis Protoplasts Transfected with a Luminescent Clock Reporter
Published on: September 17, 2016
The illuminated plant cell
1Laboratory of Plant Development and Interactions, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, 588 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada.
Abstract:
The past decade has provided biologists with a palette of genetically encoded, multicolored fluorescent proteins. The living plant cell turned into a 'coloring book' and today, nearly every text-book organelle has been highlighted in scintillating fluorescent colors. This review provides a concise listing of the earliest representative fluorescent-protein probes used to highlight various targets within the plant cell, and introduces the idea of using the numerous multicolor, subcellular probes for the development of an early intracellular response profile of plants.
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